I would also say that AK1200 is one of the Big Three when it comes to the jungle subgenre. But he's definitely a distant third behind Dieselboy and DJ Dara, with whom he started the legendary and never-ending Planet of the Drums tour. Still - not bad. He collaborated with those artists and many other big names in the genre. He did a little something with a Tribe Called Quest too that turned out great, and that kinda matters.
Despite his importance to the genre, the difficulty of how to listen to a DJ's entire repertoire in chronology order was solved by Google Play, which only offered me 10 songs. And really there were only four songs, with multiple remixes of several.
The first of these is "Keep Hope Alive" from the Urbal Beats 2 collection, which is a pretty legit collection from URB magazine. It's strange that it's not the first song on the album because it does that quirky thing where it starts off as a sorta goofy house song that emerges into a darker drum-and-bass beat. It's great. (If we ever get to listen to Atmospheric Drum and Bass that album starts with a similar trick.) The song is a remix of a Crystal Method track. Enjoy it:
Other than a random but decent track called "Fake," the other major streaming tracks were the singles for "Emancipate" and "Real Justice." Both are hard, fast bangers with a dark tone but a socially conscious edge. Basically, this is exactly what I'm looking for - sometimes, like late at night. Someone made a video of it, and there's not much more to listen to or comment on but it sure rocks hard:
